BU288 Lecture 3: BU-288 Lecture 3
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Nature vs. nurture: heredity sets the limits on the development of personality characteristics, environment determines development within these limits. The dispositional approach: focuses on individual dispositions and personality. Individuals possess stable traits or characteristics that influence their attitudes and behaviors. Individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways. The situational approach: characteristics of the organizational setting influence people"s feelings, attitudes and behaviors, many studies have shown that situational factors such as characteristics of work tasks predict job satisfaction. The interactionist approach: ob is a function of both dispositions and the situation, to predict and understand organizational behavior, we need to know something about an individual"s personality and the work setting, most widely accepted approach to ob. The 5-factor model of personality: 5 basic but general independent dimensions that describe personality, extraversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience. How do we test personality: self-report assessments, could be distributed together with social desirability measures, observational techniques.
